(80 quotes found)
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
Aristotle
“When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.”
Francis Beaumont
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
Maurice Chevalier
“If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart”
Robert Burton
“Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease”
Thomas C. Haliburton
“Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf”
Baruch Spinoza
“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad”
Victor Hugo
